Met a Girl
Love's Redemption: A Sailor's Journey to Belonging
Lyrics
Seems like I spent all my
Expressing a significant amount of time spent with a broken heart in youth.
Youth with a broken heart
Reflecting on the experience of having a broken heart during youth.
Until I just gave up on love and walked away
Choosing to give up on love and walk away from it.
It could not end badly if it didn't start
Speculating that if love didn't start, it couldn't end badly.
So I decided that I just wouldn't play
Deciding not to participate in love and relationships.
Then I met a girl, or she met me
Encountering a girl or being encountered by her, leading to a transformative experience.
Changed my world and set me free
Describing the girl as someone who changed the speaker's world and brought freedom.
I never knew what love could be
Expressing a newfound understanding of love.
Then I met a girl (Then I met a girl)
Repetition emphasizing the impact of meeting the girl.
Then I met a girl (Then I met a girl)
-Then I met a girl (Then I met a girl)
-Then I met a girl (Then I met a girl)
-Found me a ship then I joined up with a crеw
Finding a ship and joining a rough and tumble sailor crew.
Rough and tumble sailor has no
Describing the nature of the sailor crew as rough and tumble.
Heart is what they say
Highlighting the perception that sailors lack heart.
I rеally did believe that all that was true
Initially believing the stereotype about sailors to be true.
I found a home at sea and
Finding a sense of belonging at sea and deciding to stay.
Knew that's where I'd stay
Committing to a life at sea.
Then I met a girl, or she met me
Encountering another girl or being encountered, leading to another transformative experience.
Changed my world and set me free
Describing the girl as someone who changed the speaker's world and brought freedom.
Thought that loneliness was my destiny
Reflecting on the misconception that loneliness was inevitable.
Then I met a girl (Then I met a girl)
Repetition emphasizing the impact of meeting the girl.
Then I met a girl (Then I met a girl)
-Then I met a girl (Then I met a girl)
-Then I met a girl (Then I met a girl)
-Never thought that I would
Expressing surprise at the desire to settle down.
Want to settle down
Not anticipating the desire for a settled life.
Thought I'd be satisfied surviving on my own
Believing satisfaction could be found in surviving alone.
Never thought I would be thinking
Unexpectedly thinking about settling in a house in town.
Of a house in town
Contemplating settling down in contrast to the previous belief.
Always knew that I would end up all alone
Always expecting to end up alone.
Then I met a girl, or she met me
Encountering another girl or being encountered, leading to another transformative experience.
Changed my world and set me free
Describing the girl as someone who changed the speaker's world and brought freedom.
Never had a reason I should believe
Reflecting on the absence of a reason to believe in love previously.
Then I met a girl (Then I met a girl)
Repetition emphasizing the impact of meeting the girl.
Then I met a girl (Then I met a girl)
-Then I met a girl, or she met me
-Changed my world and set me free
-I never knew what love could be
Expressing a newfound understanding of love.
Then I met a girl (Then I met a girl)
Repetition emphasizing the impact of meeting the girl.
Then I met a girl (Then I met a girl)
-Then I met a girl, or she met me
Repetition emphasizing the impact of meeting the girl and challenging the belief in loneliness.
Changed my world and set me free
-I thought loneliness was my destiny
-Then I met a girl (Then I met a girl)
-Then I met a girl (Then I met a girl)
-Then I met a girl, or she met me
Repetition emphasizing the impact of meeting the girl and dispelling the belief in loneliness.
Changed my world and set me free
-Never had a reason I should believe
-Then I met a girl (Then I met a girl)
-Then I met a girl (Then I met a girl)
-Then I met a girl (Then I met a girl)
-Then I met a girl (Then I met a girl)
Final repetition underscoring the transformative impact of meeting a girl.
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